Anyone who spends anytime outside in Las Vegas will notice one thing very quickly and that is the huge amount of helicopter traffic. Some of that is High Rollers and Celebs flying in, some are News and Traffic helicopters taking an aerial view of the city, but most, a huge majority are tourist sightseeing flights, … Read more
A year or so ago I made a late attempt at a new career, that of a commercial pilot. This venture ended up leading to a dead-end, due in part to the huge financial outlay needed and also to the fact I just didn’t believe I was good enough. However part of this experience led … Read more
Today would be a very long day. The return leg of our journey, the flight out of San Diego was 7:00 am which meant a 4:30 alarm call. But the Short 1ht ish hop on Delta only took us as far as Vegas with our outward flight on Virgin, not until 8:00 pm giving us … Read more
So Today was to be a relaxed day following our pretty epic whirlwind road trip. Relaxed for me means a morning spent diving the Cold Water Kelp forests of La Jolla Obviously! Although for once Kate did actually get a genuinely relaxed morning, just pottering around the hotel organizing a few things and so on. … Read more
It has been a long hard few days. While Vegas was intense there was a lot of downtime thrown in. Since we left it’s been ALL go. So today was the start of two more relaxed days to get us recharged before attacking San Diego. But our relaxed days are still fun and interesting days … Read more
Today we visit the Happiest place on earth! Apparently. However, we needed to make the most of our time in the park as we only had time for one day. This was a manic trip and no time to spend a few days with Mickey as we would like to in order to see the … Read more
Today’s plan was simple. Get in the car and DRIVE! Just follow Route 66 all the way to Los Angeles. What could be easier? Well if you know Route 66 you will know following it is anything but simple and there is the small matter of the fact it was a whopping 415 miles, give … Read more
Yesterday had been a hard long day, and today was to be even tougher! At least there would be no long hikes. There would be a lot of driving, however. The day began At Bryce for sunrise, then a Dash to Page for our Antelope Canyon Photo Tour. Then we would head to the very … Read more
Yesterday was our last day in Vegas and the plan is to get up bright and early and high-tail it out of Sin City and do a whirlwind 1,200-mile road trip around the Grand Canyon. Taking in Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Page Arizona, The Grand Canyon South Rim then Pick up Route … Read more
This is the first time all trip we used an alarm clock. And the reason was to get up bright and early to take the Lamborghini up to the Red Rock Canyon for Sunrise and some quiet roads. Unfortunately, the bad weather that has blighted Tuesday had returned to the valley and this kind of … Read more